Snape fiddled while Harry burned? was Re: Spinner's End--

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 140141

Sherry:
*(snip)*
>And even after all was said and done,
> I think he'd have gone after Sirius, just in case.  I think most 
people in
> the same circumstances would do exactly the same.  If they couldn't 
get in
> touch with the police and had reason to think a loved one was in 
danger, I
> think most anyone would rush off to try to help. 

Ceridwen:
I think so, too.  Logically, given ability, anyone would rush to 
help.  Harry certainly had no reason not to believe his vision, or to 
know that Voldemort had finally clued into the connection.

But, Snape wouldn't necessarily think like that.  Particularily 
because, as someone else has said already, somewhere back in all 
these posts, he thought they had no way out of the forest and to 
London.  I don't think Snape's a very imaginative man, where Luna 
Lovegood is extremely imaginative.  And wasn't she the one who first 
suggested riding Thestrals?  Did he even know she was there?  Didn't 
she come in with Ginny and Neville, after the trio and Umbridge went 
off into the forest?

I think the first tip-off to Snape that they were off to the 
Ministry, was when they didn't come back in a reasonable amount of 
time.  He may well have imagined that Harry would have rushed off if 
he could have, but then, he'd given Snape some sort of message (and 
we know that Snape is a Legilimens now, so he most likely did get the 
message, might even have had a private laugh later on at the cryptic 
spoken message), and to Snape's knowledge, was relying on the Order 
to deal with it.

And, the Order wasn't going to do a thing, since Sirius was safely at 
Grimmauld Place, until they found out that the DA had gone to 
London.  Obviously a trap.  But, finding out they weren't in the 
forest after all, had to be done first.  And, if Snape was satisfied 
that Sirius wasn't at the Ministry, he might not even have kept too 
close tabs on the kids after his initial floo to #12.  When he 
noticed them missing, too, there are other things in the forest that 
could have done something to them, the Centaurs and Aragog come to 
mind.  I think his not knowing they had a way to the Ministry fouled 
him up here.

And, I don't know if Snape would do it if he was in Harry's place.  
Which would certainly color his perception of what might be going 
on.  As I said, I don't think he's very imaginative.  If he wouldn't 
do it, he wouldn't think someone else might, until he's forced to 
admit the belated obvious.  IMO.

Ceridwen.